With respect to greater commercialization potential and as with the issue of
the chip-in-a-lab conundrum, the chip-to-world interface must be addressed from the initial design phase with the aim
of making the device as ‘user friendly’ as possible. Looking again at commercially successful examples this is readily
demonstrated in the case of inkjet cartridges being simple plug and play systems and in the home pregnancy test kit
which simply requires the loading of a sample onto the lateral flow membrane.